China Can Beat US Navy In South China Sea, Simulation Exercises Show

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China Can Beat US Navy In South China Sea, Simulation Exercises Show
By James Patterson
09/23/19 AT 2:59 AM


In 2013, a journalist staged a high-end computer war game pitting the United State’s Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) against a Chinese flotilla. The setting for the simulated battle was the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, a real-life disputed area between China and the Philippines.

The results of this battle showed the lightly armed LCS falling to the Chinese destroyer Changde and a Qinzhou corvette (a naval vessel designed for mid-range missions and littoral duties, but not for major combat operations).

And this may be why the U.S. Navy is expected to select a shipyard to build 20 heavily armed frigates to replace about half of the LCS that the Navy had planned to buy before realizing that they couldn’t survive, much less win, a major shooting war.

https://www.ibtimes.com/china-can-beat-us-navy-south-china-sea-simulation-exercises-show-2831264

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China Can Beat US Navy In South China Sea, Simulation Exercises Show
By James Patterson
09/23/19 AT 2:59 AM


In 2013, a journalist staged a high-end computer war game pitting the United State’s Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) against a Chinese flotilla. The setting for the simulated battle was the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, a real-life disputed area between China and the Philippines.

The results of this battle showed the lightly armed LCS falling to the Chinese destroyer Changde and a Qinzhou corvette (a naval vessel designed for mid-range missions and littoral duties, but not for major combat operations).

And this may be why the U.S. Navy is expected to select a shipyard to build 20 heavily armed frigates to replace about half of the LCS that the Navy had planned to buy before realizing that they couldn’t survive, much less win, a major shooting war.

https://www.ibtimes.com/china-can-beat-us-navy-south-china-sea-simulation-exercises-show-2831264

And this was before the construction of those strategic artifical islands wasn't it?